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Excuse me Excuse me sir. What are you doing?
Said the Capitol Hill resident after the third wave of cyclists blew through Louisa Boren Overlook park.
I’m notarizing manifests.
For what?

I’ll give you what for.
Nice day for a bike ride, a corn dog, a beer and a new Hella t-shirt hand made in Seattle one-at-a-time one-of-a-kind. Nice view from my checkpoint. Raccoons the size of Texas living large in Interlaken. A curious bounce board photo shoot. Curious North Capitol Hill bystanders standing by made it hard to take a piss in the park. Had to call in Jewell for backup.

Three manifests. Picks. Drops. And bonus points for things like tennis balls, road turtles, bricks, g-strings and 40oz of St Ides, which is not icecream and is not available on the hill.

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not so subtle body language
look again
blind date or tired marriage
passion filled sparkle or
comfortable dependence
the shine wore off in 1986
proximity personal space
people
strangers neighbors coworkers teammates
buddies pals chums lovers
at the same table
in the same car
on the same corner
next to each other
guilty by association
the mind will find a connection
create a relationship
smooth things over

size em up
not quite fight-or-flight
still a valuable survival skill

images phrases photographs words
on the same page    in the same paragraph
you’ll figure it out
with or without punctuation
association juxtaposition connection

makes sense          if you want it to

makes something even if you don’t

No best boy, no key grip, no gaffer, no cinematographer, no bounce boards, no cue cards, no caterer, no luxury trailer. Sometimes the sun comes out in Seattle. Sometimes. Shit happens. This is not a mayonnaise commercial.

This is real

or it was

Chris Murray photo

repetitive motion
repeated repeatedly          repeated
taken for granted
taken in stride
every day every week every year
until one day it’s taken away
until one day it’s no longer here
a change of scenery
a transfer order
a big orange bulldozer
route rote rut          routine
right      wrong again
right      then left and then
write wrote written down
normal wear & tear
catastrophic failure
your favorite sweater
just riding along
gut check     wakeup call
oil slick            nasty fall
replace divots please
melted sharp cheddar cheese
gentrification    renovation
give em 2.54 centimeters
they take 1.6 kilometers
pizza party poopy pants pillow fight
diced dill pickle pasta shell bottle neck
salad bar sneeze guard overspray baby corn
shake well before using
doing what needs to be done
achieving the objective
with the resources available
perhaps not the best tool for the job
bloody knuckle vice grip bike mechanic
How can I do it more efficiently?
How can I get someone to do it for me?
file it electronically        
if you want it done right
don’t call me

re po
no
re pro
to and fro
you get it?
you got it
now give something back
it’s reciprocity bro
and so it goes

An anthropologist walks into a bar
around 11:45am in search of data
to support her thesis on drinking before noon
but the bar is empty
so she has a drink

There are 366 days in one leap year
A hogshead is 126 pitchers of beer

my rear dropouts are 126 mm apart today

A cubic foot of water weighs 62.425 pounds
13½ cubic feet of air weighs 1 pound

One meridian is 69.16 miles at the equator
A ream is 480 sheets of paper

A cord of wood stacks 8’ x 4’ x 4’
Caloric output warming twice

A furlong is 660 feet
A fathom is 6 feet

It all makes sense     
in what context
to and fro

 
I can see clearly now
The ERD of an ME14A

high flange straight gage laced 3-cross
brass nipples nestled neatly in eyeleted rim 

with a CXP21 radially laced up front
Why
because I can
not too worried about failure at the flange
not too worried about fluffy trendy shit  

the smell of boiled linseed oil on a Saturday

What would Ron Sutphin do?

MorrisPost photo

Hella CornDog III   August 28, 2004

Craig Etheridge photo

 You can never have too many Control Tech stems

 Thursday means Mongolian Beef 
get there early
get in line

keep track of wait time

out ‘n back
double roundtrip
again

right where you started
holding nothing
standing by

0.378...let's just call it Three Nine

Matching pair of escalators
Her ascent
Counterbalanced
My descent
Our eyes met in the middle
Glanced back but couldn’t look past
The toilet paper pasted to her pants

Sixth Avenue sidewalk
She strolled north
I rolled south
Smiles as we passed
Nonchalant head turn   
Four and a half feet later
I crashed
 
She pointed west on East Pike
East bound and down loaded up and truckin
alcohol fueled flirt on the
Fringe of Capitol Hill
I stopped and turned to talk about the weather
but she’d already rolled away

Buttercup told me

First you Floyd then you Pflueger

or you Skellenger & Bender

and then you Keller & Rohrback
 

Craig Etheridge photo

 
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Look honey, a legal messenger.

Isn’t that cute. You don’t see those much anymore. He’s like the paperboy we had back when newspapers were printed on paper. Or the milkman my mom always talked about. Or doctors on TV that made house calls.